US to expand veterans mental health services
From today’s Boston Globe.
Author: Fr. Peter
Picnic
Just a short post to ask all who read this today, Sunday June 15th, to pray that our church festival goes well today. Many hours of preparation go into this day...
Weekend Stuff
This weekend is the long awaited St. Michael’s 83rd Annual Church Picnic. Next to Holy Week this is the hardest week being priest here. There are so many ...
Liturgical Language
A few posts back I wrote about liurgical langauge. I came across two articles that I thought could be helpful. Liturgical Ebonics – Fr. Steven C. Salaris ...
Orthodox Say Unity Must Be Priority
Respond to Document on Nature of Church VIENNA, Austria, JULY 11, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The breach of Eucharistic communion between East and West is a common trage...
11 July ~ St. Drostan
A Scottish abbot who flourished about A.D. 600. All that is known of him is found in the “Breviarium Aberdonense” and in the “Book of DeirR...
Books I am Reading
Recently I stumbled across the blog of an 8th grade teacher from Missouri who has a blog called Speaking of History. He uses his blog as part of his classroom t...
7 July ~ St. Palladius
First bishop sent by Pope Celestine to Ireland (431). The chronicle of the contemporary St. Prosper of Aquitaine present two import entries relating to Palladiu...
1 July ~ St. Serf
Saint Serf (Servanus) (ca. 500—d. 583 AD) was probably a Brythonic saint, certainly of Scotland. The only thing that can be safely asserted of Serf is that he p...
Liturgical Abuse
Some of you may have followed the news of the release of a statement from Rome at loosens up the use of the former pre–Vatican II liturgy in the Church of...